Clinton: 'Nobody's Talking About Contesting The Election, Including Me'

[karynnj]

45. Before 2004, in the wake of 2003, Jimmy Carter was asked if he could observe the US election

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His answer then was that the way that most states ran the election did not meet the basic standards they required in third world nations. We need a system where if something is questioned there is a way to go back to the ballots cast.

One question that would have to be answered is whether the entire country would have to be recounted if one state - like Florida 2000 looked weird. As it was, there were many other problems with Florida - notably the felons list that included black NON FELONS. In fact, the felons list, created by a Texas company hired by Katherine Harris, who was part of B/C and worked for Jeb Bush itself was a clear example of cheating -- and one county alerted the state that it had errors before the election.

Going to a national popular vote would completely change elections. Candidates would not go to every moderate size town in Ohio and ignore LA, NYC and Boston. This would totally advantage us. Imagine huge campaign rallies in Central Park, the Boston Commons etc. It would take some power from the media as more people would actually see the candidate in person. (I realized how much the media filtered when people here and on DU were stunned that the Kerrys wrote a book on the environment and did a book tour in 2007. Yet, having watched the campaign on CSPAN, I saw the environment/climate change/clean energy segment of his speech in every speech. )

Think of people - in every election - who spoke of having the liberty to cast a "protest" vote or not vote because their state was dark blue. Now, their vote matters as much as that of a currently highly courted swing state vote. I never got the point of Republicans who showed a map of the country showing the counties in which they got the majority. They did cover the map red, but they colored a lot of land where almost no one lived. The country is a country of PEOPLE, not acres of land.



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